Gewehr 98

The Gewehr 98 is a German bolt-action Mauser rifle that was the service rifle of the Imperial German Army, Reichswehr, and Wehrmacht from 1898 to 1935, when the Karabiner 98k phased it out of service. The weapon first saw action during the Boxer Rebellion, and it was the standard German rifle during World War I. The Ottoman Empire and the Falange party of Spain would also adopt the Gewehr 98, which would see action into the 1940s during the Chinese Civil War. From 1898 to 1918, over 9,000,000 Gewehr 98 guns were produced.